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Volume XCVIV, Number 1 University of Southern California Wednesday, May 22, 1985
USC students rally against apartheid; encourage university to ‘divest now’
By Kirsten Levingston
It all began on April 24, 1985. While many students prepared for finals which were only one week away. Black Student Union president Bernard Walker, Student Senator Mark Decker, and Carmen Chandler organized and helped execute a series of events which will be etched in the USC history book forever.
On this day USC joined college campuses all over the nation in protesting the existence of apartheid in South Africa, with the institution of its very own “Free South Africa Movement."
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24: A noon-time antiapartheid rally, featuring Los Angeles City Council member Robert Farrell and Los Angeles School Board member Jackie Goldberg, attracts about 400 students and describes the harsh realities of life for non-whites in South Africa.
The speakers at the rally encourage students to demand the divestment of USC's money from companies doing business in the racially segregated country.
That same evening, about 50 students gather for a sleep-in in newly christened "Desmond Tutu Study Hall." Formerly known as Bovard Administration Building, it is renamed by the Free South Africa Movement, whose members fill its halls for six straight days and nights.
Handmade signs calling for divestment line the walls. Sleeping bags, pillows, blankets, and bodies are sprawled in front of USC President James Zum-berge's office and throughout the entire south corridor of the building. Provisions such as food, drinks and books are also scattered about, indicating that the protestors are prepared to stay for an indefinite amount of time.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25: Throughout the early morning hours those involved in the sleep-in discuss their goais and the approach they will take to acheive them. Some suggest a more radical approach, reminiscent of the '60s peace movement, going so far as civil disobedience and possible arrest. However the majority suggest a more conservative technique that would attract the attention of the administration and the public while remaining within the boundaries of school policy.
The result of the discussion is the formation of the South African Task Force, a group that vows to keep pressure on the university until divestment is acheived.
The first step taken by the task force is a formal declaration of its demands. They are that the univerity vocally divest all holdings in companies doing business in 'the racist country of South Africa,' that the outgoing and incoming chairmen of the USC Board of Trustees, Carl Hartnack and George Scharffenberger respectively, meet with the group by Tuesday, April 30, and finally, that USC alumni and supporters refrain from donating funds and properties to the university, while examining their personal investment portfolios for companies doing business in South Africa.
According to task force spokesperson and protest organizer Bernard Walker, the protestors will remain in Tutu Study Hall 'as long as it takes' for their demands to be met.
And remain they do. All week long students, faculty, and staff sleep, sit, eat, sing and discuss the movement. Whether in the halls of Tutu, in the middle of Hahn Plaza, or on the steps of Tommy Trojan, they bring attention to their cause.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30: The University Commission on South Africa, a group composed of students, faculty, and administrators formed to investigate the country's situation and to advise University President James Zumberge on a plan of action, holds an open forum. Also in attendance is outgoing Board of Trustees Chairman Carl Hartnack.
Room 101 in Taper Hall is packed with about 80 people who come to voice their opinion on USC's continued investments in countries doing business in South Africa. Most don't understand how the university could condemn apartheid on the one hand, and then continue to invest in South Africa
(Continued on page 2)
Summer Trojan Schedule
This is the first issue of the Summer Trojan, which will be published every Wednesday through July 24. AD letters, comments and suggestions may be addressed to Student Union 418, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
USC vice president Jon Strauss resigns
Will assume presidency of eastern school
6,700 students receive degrees at annual commencement exercises
By Stacey Schmeidel
Jon C. Strauss, senior vice president for administration, has resigned to assume the presidency of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Strauss' resignation was announced May 6 and will become effective July 1. Vice president for business affairs Anthony D. Lazzaro will act as senior vice president for administration until a permanent replacement is found.
Strauss came to USC from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. His primary duties here included responsibility for the university budget, personnel policies, financial and legal affairs, business operations and academic support organizations, such as computing, admissions and financial aid, and faculty contracts and grants.
Saying that he had "no
WENDY ROSEN MALECKI
Jon Strauss
problems" at USC, Strauss stressed that his resignation was "a move in response to opportunity."
"USC's a good place," he said, "with good people, and a chance to do exciting things. It's been a fun place to be a part of.
"It's been a good place to be, and I've enjoyed it," he continued. "I've put a lot of effort into foundation building, (Continued on pave 4)
cation, visitors took seats on the Bovard steps and on blankets on the grass in front of the Allan Hancock Building. Hugh Helm, president of the General Alumni Association, welcomed the new graduates to the 170,000-mem-ber Trojan family, and introduced . co-valedictorians Frederick L. Wehling and Michael Patrick Reilly.
The valedictorians' speeches, like the rest of the ceremony, were lighthearted but sincere.
"I don't know about the rest of you," said Wehling, a triple major in international relations, political science, and Slavic languages and literature, "but I can't believe I'm actually graduating."
Wehling concluded that "all this really isn’t happening," and speculated that the entire Class of '85 had fallen asleep in the long line at freshman registration.
"Any minute now," he said, "we're all going to wake up and someone's going to present us each with a check for $42,000 — Visa or MasterCard accepted."
When asked if it was all worth it, though, Wehling said, the answer was a "definite yes."
Keiiiy, a doubie major in Spanish and business administration, agreed. In a slightly more serious tone, Reilly spoke of the problems and challenges awaiting the new graduates, saying, "We must appreciate what we have learned, as well as the potential within us." He concluded by thanking those who supported and inspired the Class of '85 and by congratulating his fellow graduates.
Simon Ramo, "the 'R' in
TRW," then addressed the graduates on the difficulties of entering a world in which advances in social policy lag behind advances in technology.
Ramo is a man of many talents: He received his doctorate in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1936, and was co-founder in 1953 of the Ramo-Woolridge Corporation (later renamed TRW). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was the main designer of the US. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system and the first director of the Falcon guided missile program for air defense. His wife Virgina has been a member of the USC Board of Trustees since 1971.
Having delivered the commencement address in 1970, Ramo is the only person to have spoken at more than one USC graduation. He joked that if the pattern continued, he would be asked back in another 15 years to address the Class of 2000 and based this year's speech on what he might say under those circumstances.
Ramo stressed that the world in the year 2000 would be vastly different from loday's world.
"Advancing technology will have a major effect on the Class of 2000," he said, "influencing all pursuits and all majors."
Ramo suggested that the new technology would improve the collection and storing of information, and lead to a vast computer communication network between homes, stores, and offices. Massive funds invested in this huge computer system will (Continued on page 4)
PHOTO BY USC PERIODICALS
Flowers and leis decorated many graduation gowns during spring commencement two weeks ago.
By Stacey Schmeidel
Amid flowers, balloons, leis, and much pomp and circumstance, degrees were conferred on 6,700 students at USC's spring graduation Friday, May 10.
The ceremony, USC's 102nd, contained elements of tradition and modernity, seriousness and fun, and, as President Zumberge said, "recognition and relief." Traditionally somber black robes were brightened with pins and corsages, baseball caps substituted for mortarboards, and bouquets, books, beverages, cameras and confetti were carried through the opening processional.
Several thousand guests crowded the campus as the graduates, grouped by major, marched down Truesdale Parkway to the strains of John Williams' "The Olympian." After the flag bearers placed the flags of the various schools in a colorful circle around the Alumni Park fountain. University Marshal Gerald A. Fleischer, garbed in a bright red robe, led the faculty procession from Bovard Auditorium.
After University Chaplain Al-vui a. ivudisiii’s opening invo-

trojan
Volume XCVIV, Number 1 University of Southern California Wednesday, May 22, 1985
USC students rally against apartheid; encourage university to ‘divest now’
By Kirsten Levingston
It all began on April 24, 1985. While many students prepared for finals which were only one week away. Black Student Union president Bernard Walker, Student Senator Mark Decker, and Carmen Chandler organized and helped execute a series of events which will be etched in the USC history book forever.
On this day USC joined college campuses all over the nation in protesting the existence of apartheid in South Africa, with the institution of its very own “Free South Africa Movement."
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24: A noon-time antiapartheid rally, featuring Los Angeles City Council member Robert Farrell and Los Angeles School Board member Jackie Goldberg, attracts about 400 students and describes the harsh realities of life for non-whites in South Africa.
The speakers at the rally encourage students to demand the divestment of USC's money from companies doing business in the racially segregated country.
That same evening, about 50 students gather for a sleep-in in newly christened "Desmond Tutu Study Hall." Formerly known as Bovard Administration Building, it is renamed by the Free South Africa Movement, whose members fill its halls for six straight days and nights.
Handmade signs calling for divestment line the walls. Sleeping bags, pillows, blankets, and bodies are sprawled in front of USC President James Zum-berge's office and throughout the entire south corridor of the building. Provisions such as food, drinks and books are also scattered about, indicating that the protestors are prepared to stay for an indefinite amount of time.
THURSDAY, APRIL 25: Throughout the early morning hours those involved in the sleep-in discuss their goais and the approach they will take to acheive them. Some suggest a more radical approach, reminiscent of the '60s peace movement, going so far as civil disobedience and possible arrest. However the majority suggest a more conservative technique that would attract the attention of the administration and the public while remaining within the boundaries of school policy.
The result of the discussion is the formation of the South African Task Force, a group that vows to keep pressure on the university until divestment is acheived.
The first step taken by the task force is a formal declaration of its demands. They are that the univerity vocally divest all holdings in companies doing business in 'the racist country of South Africa,' that the outgoing and incoming chairmen of the USC Board of Trustees, Carl Hartnack and George Scharffenberger respectively, meet with the group by Tuesday, April 30, and finally, that USC alumni and supporters refrain from donating funds and properties to the university, while examining their personal investment portfolios for companies doing business in South Africa.
According to task force spokesperson and protest organizer Bernard Walker, the protestors will remain in Tutu Study Hall 'as long as it takes' for their demands to be met.
And remain they do. All week long students, faculty, and staff sleep, sit, eat, sing and discuss the movement. Whether in the halls of Tutu, in the middle of Hahn Plaza, or on the steps of Tommy Trojan, they bring attention to their cause.
TUESDAY, APRIL 30: The University Commission on South Africa, a group composed of students, faculty, and administrators formed to investigate the country's situation and to advise University President James Zumberge on a plan of action, holds an open forum. Also in attendance is outgoing Board of Trustees Chairman Carl Hartnack.
Room 101 in Taper Hall is packed with about 80 people who come to voice their opinion on USC's continued investments in countries doing business in South Africa. Most don't understand how the university could condemn apartheid on the one hand, and then continue to invest in South Africa
(Continued on page 2)
Summer Trojan Schedule
This is the first issue of the Summer Trojan, which will be published every Wednesday through July 24. AD letters, comments and suggestions may be addressed to Student Union 418, University Park, Los Angeles, CA 90089.
USC vice president Jon Strauss resigns
Will assume presidency of eastern school
6,700 students receive degrees at annual commencement exercises
By Stacey Schmeidel
Jon C. Strauss, senior vice president for administration, has resigned to assume the presidency of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts.
Strauss' resignation was announced May 6 and will become effective July 1. Vice president for business affairs Anthony D. Lazzaro will act as senior vice president for administration until a permanent replacement is found.
Strauss came to USC from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. His primary duties here included responsibility for the university budget, personnel policies, financial and legal affairs, business operations and academic support organizations, such as computing, admissions and financial aid, and faculty contracts and grants.
Saying that he had "no
WENDY ROSEN MALECKI
Jon Strauss
problems" at USC, Strauss stressed that his resignation was "a move in response to opportunity."
"USC's a good place," he said, "with good people, and a chance to do exciting things. It's been a fun place to be a part of.
"It's been a good place to be, and I've enjoyed it," he continued. "I've put a lot of effort into foundation building, (Continued on pave 4)
cation, visitors took seats on the Bovard steps and on blankets on the grass in front of the Allan Hancock Building. Hugh Helm, president of the General Alumni Association, welcomed the new graduates to the 170,000-mem-ber Trojan family, and introduced . co-valedictorians Frederick L. Wehling and Michael Patrick Reilly.
The valedictorians' speeches, like the rest of the ceremony, were lighthearted but sincere.
"I don't know about the rest of you," said Wehling, a triple major in international relations, political science, and Slavic languages and literature, "but I can't believe I'm actually graduating."
Wehling concluded that "all this really isn’t happening," and speculated that the entire Class of '85 had fallen asleep in the long line at freshman registration.
"Any minute now," he said, "we're all going to wake up and someone's going to present us each with a check for $42,000 — Visa or MasterCard accepted."
When asked if it was all worth it, though, Wehling said, the answer was a "definite yes."
Keiiiy, a doubie major in Spanish and business administration, agreed. In a slightly more serious tone, Reilly spoke of the problems and challenges awaiting the new graduates, saying, "We must appreciate what we have learned, as well as the potential within us." He concluded by thanking those who supported and inspired the Class of '85 and by congratulating his fellow graduates.
Simon Ramo, "the 'R' in
TRW," then addressed the graduates on the difficulties of entering a world in which advances in social policy lag behind advances in technology.
Ramo is a man of many talents: He received his doctorate in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1936, and was co-founder in 1953 of the Ramo-Woolridge Corporation (later renamed TRW). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was the main designer of the US. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile system and the first director of the Falcon guided missile program for air defense. His wife Virgina has been a member of the USC Board of Trustees since 1971.
Having delivered the commencement address in 1970, Ramo is the only person to have spoken at more than one USC graduation. He joked that if the pattern continued, he would be asked back in another 15 years to address the Class of 2000 and based this year's speech on what he might say under those circumstances.
Ramo stressed that the world in the year 2000 would be vastly different from loday's world.
"Advancing technology will have a major effect on the Class of 2000," he said, "influencing all pursuits and all majors."
Ramo suggested that the new technology would improve the collection and storing of information, and lead to a vast computer communication network between homes, stores, and offices. Massive funds invested in this huge computer system will (Continued on page 4)
PHOTO BY USC PERIODICALS
Flowers and leis decorated many graduation gowns during spring commencement two weeks ago.
By Stacey Schmeidel
Amid flowers, balloons, leis, and much pomp and circumstance, degrees were conferred on 6,700 students at USC's spring graduation Friday, May 10.
The ceremony, USC's 102nd, contained elements of tradition and modernity, seriousness and fun, and, as President Zumberge said, "recognition and relief." Traditionally somber black robes were brightened with pins and corsages, baseball caps substituted for mortarboards, and bouquets, books, beverages, cameras and confetti were carried through the opening processional.
Several thousand guests crowded the campus as the graduates, grouped by major, marched down Truesdale Parkway to the strains of John Williams' "The Olympian." After the flag bearers placed the flags of the various schools in a colorful circle around the Alumni Park fountain. University Marshal Gerald A. Fleischer, garbed in a bright red robe, led the faculty procession from Bovard Auditorium.
After University Chaplain Al-vui a. ivudisiii’s opening invo-